Sentence examples for servile obedience from inspiring English sources

But the modern duel proper was set apart as private and dispassionate, "a strange blend of anarchic individualism with servile obedience to an unnatural rule," in Kiernan's words.

But the foundation of this ethos was, for the great majority of Russian officials, servile obedience to the tsar and not service to the state as that phrase was understood in a country such as Prussia.

Now, however, Graham, whose mind might not have a whole lot of space for pertinent history, thinks this party's identity and survival depend on servile obedience to this president's myopia.

Servile century".

"Not servile enough," Rihanna says.

(a) Unquestioning obedience.

"Obedience comes from listening".

All about obedience.

The servile status of the peasantry increased.

Obedience is ingrained.

Hence the servile cringe of the February 28 announcement.